The Texas Tribune

The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, digital-first news organization that informs and engages with Texans on public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. This news organization’s site provides vital information and news to millions of Texans for free, and its journalism is distributed through more than 60 statewide media partners to local outlets. Partnerships with platforms including ProPublica, Apple News, and SmartNews put its content before a nationwide audience.

Current Position

Location: Austin, Texas

Beat: Permian Basin communities

Position:

The Texas Tribune’s new regional team is expanding to cover the Permian Basin—a region that is home to hundreds of thousands of Texans and the oil and gas capital of the United States. Based in Midland or Odessa, the reporter publishes deeply sourced articles about the region’s stark inequalities, the impacts of an extraction-based economy, labor and workforce issues, fracking, regulation and the disparate impacts of policies made in Austin.

Reporter: Carlos Nogueras